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Design and implementation of a model-based hierarchical architecture for plasma shape control in the TCV tokamak

Olivier Sauter, Stefano Coda, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Cristian Galperti, Alessandro Tenaglia, Adriano Mele

Plasma shape control is a fundamental tool for effective tokamak operation, allowing improved plasma performance and the pursuit of challenging scientific objectives. In this framework, the Tokamak á Configuration Variable (TCV) of the École Polytechnique ...

IOP Publishing2025

Investigating the influence of divertor baffles on nitrogen-seeded detachment in TCV with SOLPS-ITER simulations and TCV experiments

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Richard Alexander David Ducker, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Claudia Colandrea, Guang-Yu Sun, Luke Simons, Elena Tonello, Massimo Carpita

Plasma edge simulations with the SOLPS-ITER code are performed to study the influence of divertor baffles on nitrogen-seeded detachment in Tokamak & agrave; Configuration Variable (TCV) single-null, L-mode discharges. Scans of nitrogen seeding rate are con ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Machine learning methods for locked-mode predictions in MAST-U plasmas

Alessandro Pau

In tokamaks, rotating magneto-hydro-dynamic modes frequently decelerate as their amplitude increases. Once a critical threshold in amplitude is reached, these modes stop rotating into a specific toroidal and poloidal position and are commonly named Locked ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Lessons Learned Executing the Non-disruptive Compass Scan Method at Jet Towards Error Field Identification Experiments in Iter

Olivier Sauter, Alessandro Pau

In preparation for error field (EF) identification experiments in ITER, a series of experiments have been conducted at JET to test the portability of the non-disruptive compass scan, a method originally designed and tested in DIII-D (Paz-Soldan et al 2022 ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2025

Turnstile flux as a measure for chaotic transport in magnetic confinement fusion devices

Joaquim Loizu Cisquella, Ludovic Rais, Christopher Berg Smiet

We analyze a measure for the degree of chaos in the magnetic fields of magnetic confinement fusion reactors by calculating the lobe fluxes of turnstiles - a method developed for characterizing transport into and out of resonance zones in Hamiltonian dynami ...

2025

The quasi-continuous exhaust regime in ASDEX Upgrade and JET

Olivier Sauter, Benoît Labit

The quasi-continuous exhaust (QCE) regime is a type-I ELM-free high confinement regime obtained at high plasma shaping and high separatrix density. A comparison with various ELM-free regimes in the literature is presented together with potential physics mo ...

Elsevier2025

EUROfusion contributions to ITER nuclear operation

Alessandro Pau

ITER is of key importance in the European fusion roadmap as it aims to prove the scientific and technological feasibility of fusion as a future energy source. The EUROfusion consortium of labs within Europe is contributing to the preparation of ITER scient ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Code for project entitled "study on conformal antennas, proof of concept prototype for a UAV"

Anja Skrivervik, Yuanyan Su

This code is used for developing the project entitled “Study on conformal antennas, proof of concept prototype for a UAV”, from the aspects of theory, design, and implementation. This code aims to speed up the investigation of an arbitrary phased array ant ...

Zenodo2024

A mmWave Low Complexity and Low-Cost Super Wideband Dual-Polarized Aperture Coupled Antenna for 5G Applications

Anja Skrivervik

Advanced antenna system (AAS) is a viable option for 5G millimeter-wave (mmWave) applications. AAS single element is favored to be dual-polarized, wideband, high gain, and compact in order to be utilized for 5G antenna arrays. In this paper, a low complexi ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2024

Flux pumping studies and Ti peaking by q-profile shaping using ECCD in ASDEX Upgrade

Olivier Sauter

On ASDEX Upgrade a prioritized ‘advanced Tokamak’ program has been run during the last two experimental campaigns, focusing on the effect of non-standard current profiles on the behavior of high beta plasmas. Two lines of non-standard (i.e. non-sawtoothing ...

EDP Sciences2024

Bending Tolerance of React&Wind Nb3Sn Conductors for Fusion Magnets

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Chiara Frittitta, Federica Demattè, Hugues Marie Alain Bajas

The react-and-wind technique for manufacturing of large Nb3Sn fusion magnets (RW) is very attractive because of the superior performance of the Nb3Sn with lower thermal strain compared to the wind-and-react technique. The procedure for magnet winding is al ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2024

Numerical study of a general criterion for divertor detachment control

Olivier Claude Martin Février

The parameter R D = P rad / P cond , which measures the ratio of radiated power to conductive heat flux at downstream Scrape-Off-Layer (SOL), is proposed as a robust and practically useful figure of merit for divertor detachment control. The simulations pe ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024

Toward Metantennas: Metamaterial-Based Antennas for Wireless Communications

Yuanyan Su

Antennas have historically been the most common electromagnetic (EM) technology for wireless communication systems. Antenna as hardware is entirely dependent on the EM properties of the materials used, mostly related to the permittivity and permeability. I ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2023

Access to an ELM-suppressed X-point radiator regime in TCV snowflake minus configurations

Basil Duval, Holger Reimerdes, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Curdin Tobias Wüthrich, Olivier Claude Martin Février, Daniele Hamm, Sophie Danielle Angelica Gorno, Yinghan Wang, Guang-Yu Sun, Luke Simons, Ming Yin Kenneth Lee, Artur Perek, Martim Zurita

TCV’s operating regime with an X-point radiator (XPR) has been broadened by changing the magnetic geometry. XPRs have properties that could make them an attractive power exhaust solution for fusion reactors. These include the conversion of a high fraction ...

Elsevier2024

Data-driven Methods for Control: from Linear to Lifting

Yingzhao Lian

The progress towards intelligent systems and digitalization relies heavily on the use of automation technology. However, the growing diversity of control objects presents significant challenges for traditional control approaches, as they are highly depende ...

EPFL2023

Koopman-based Data-driven Robust Control of Nonlinear Systems Using Integral Quadratic Constraints

Alireza Karimi, Mert Eyuboglu

This paper introduces a novel method for data-driven robust control of nonlinear systems based on the Koopman operator, utilizing Integral Quadratic Constraints (IQCs). The Koopman operator theory facilitates the linear representation of nonlinear system d ...

2024

Systematic design of a multi-input multi-output controller by model-based decoupling: a demonstration on TCV using multi-species gas injection

Basil Duval, Christian Gabriel Theiler, Cristian Galperti, Artur Perek

In this paper, we present the first results of a systematically designed multi-input multi-output gas-injection controller on Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV). We demonstrate the simultaneous real-time control of the NII emission front position and l ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Succinct ordering and aggregation constraints in algebraic array theories

Viktor Kuncak, Rodrigo Raya

We discuss two extensions to a recently introduced theory of arrays, which are based on considerations coming from the model theory of power structures. First, we discuss how the ordering relation on the index set can be expressed succinctly by referring t ...

Elsevier Science Inc2024

Q-Factor Bounds for Microstrip Patch Antennas

Anja Skrivervik

Antenna bounds are a useful tool in assessing the feasibility or performance of an antenna design. Microstrip patch antennas are often limited by their relatively narrow bandwidth, and therefore Q-factor is an important design parameter, as it is related t ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Resonant interaction between runaway electrons and the toroidal magnetic field ripple in TCV

Umar Sheikh, Carl Mathias Paul Hoppe, Artur Perek

This work explains the anomalously high runaway electron (RE) pitch angles inferred in the flat-top of dedicated Tokamak a Configuration Variable (TCV) experiments. Kinetic modelling shows that the resonant interaction between the gyromotion of the electro ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2024